I’ve heard arguments about creationism and intelligent design before, but the Creationists really shouldn’t have this guy arguing for them (unless he’s secretly trying to take down Creationism from within–if so, nice work!). Laughable video:

You haven’t lived until you’ve seen Kirk Cameron explain how a banana is the ultimate proof of God’s existence (and therefore the literal interpretation of everything in the Bible – each and every conflicting version of it).

To think that he used to tell his readers in “Tiger Beat” that he was going to be a neurosurgeon after “Growing Pains…”

On the one hand, I don’t think that the conditions inside the typical jar of peanut butter are the same as the conditions that prevailed when life on Earth began. On the other hand, how does he know there’s no new life in his peanut butter? I mean, it’s not like the scientists are saying that you had some heat and water and chemicals and maybe some lightning and *POOF* a lemur! The first organisms to have existed wouldn’t have been visible to the casual observer if embedded in peanut butter.

I’m also skeptical that there were one billion jars of peanut butter sold in 1907.

And lastly, where in the world did he get such unappealing-looking peanut butter? It looks like Cheez-Whiz or something!

Bruce:

Hailing originally from the great state of Kansas, I feel uniquely qualified to comment on evolution/creationism (last I heard the current wisdom in our state is that high school bio textbooks get a sticker on the front that says “Remember: Evolution is just a theory!”, and no, I’m not making this up)

Here’s the way to explain it to your non-science nerd friends who think James Dobson might be right: Pretend that (somehow) you had irrefutable proof that the Yankees wouldn’t win the world series this year. Would that automatically mean that the Red Sox WOULD win (and not any of the dozens of other big league teams)? Of course not.

In other words, let’s say for a minute that the peanut butter guy is right (just work with me here people) and evolution is a bunch of liberal/hippie crap. Does that mean that because evolution has now been disproven, that automatically means that intelligent design is proven?

Two other quick thoughts:

1. everyone should google “The Flying Spaghetti Monster” for a good laugh on this topic.

2. as a first year med student, I am in awe every day by the machinery that makes our body work, and I really think that God probably did “design” it all. It’s just that I think the way he designed it was to allow life to evolve randomly and which ever adaptations worked best would stick around (in other words, Darwin’s theory)….my point is, why is it that science and religion try sometimes to be mutually exclusive? Couldn’t God have just said, “From now on, we use this thing I thought up called evolution!”